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Les Services Juridiques MidPenn est un cabinet d'avocats d'intérêt public à but non lucratif qui fournit des services juridiques civils gratuits de haute qualité aux résidents à faible revenu et aux survivants de violence domestique et d'agression sexuelle dans 18 comtés du centre de la Pennsylvanie.
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DETROIT, MI – A growing body of research continues to confirm what housing advocates have long asserted: eviction is not only a housing emergency but a public health crisis with community-wide consequences, particularly for Black mothers and children.

New studies are revealing that eviction’s impact extends far beyond the loss of shelter, touching on maternal health, child development, and the structural inequities woven into American housing policy. In Detroit, where gentrification, rising rents and illegal evictions have become increasingly common, social epidemiologist Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson of The Ohio State University is leading a team of researchers working to quantify the community-wide effects of housing instability.

Their research initiative, SECURE (Social Epidemiology to Combat Unjust Residential Evictions), found that Black mothers living in Metro Detroit neighborhoods with higher eviction filing rates face a 68% higher risk of premature birth — one of the leading causes of infant mortality in the United States.

What’s more alarming, according to Sealy-Jefferson, is that the pregnant person does not need to be the one experiencing the eviction. The stress from witnessing a neighbor’s displacement or living under the constant threat of eviction in a high-turnover neighborhood can be enough to trigger serious physiological symptoms that increase the risk of preterm birth.